Drabble, Stone Cold

[fredbassett]

Title : Stone Cold
Author : fredbassett
Fandom : The Hobbit
Rating : 12
Characters : OCs
Disclaimer : Not mine, no money made, don’t sue.
Spoilers : None
Summary : Written for the Tolkien100 challenge , Pluck No More

“They’ll be doing no harm now.” The girl thwacked a stick against the backside of one of the stone trolls. The noise echoed through the trees and bounced off the rocks.

“We are always ripe for the plucking so far as they were concerned.” Her mother stared up at the leering faces. “Good riddance to bad rubbish. They’ve stolen their last sheep.”

Their small settlement would no longer live in fear of the trolls.

But fear was a hard habit to break, and when darkness fell they still looked to the hills and trembled.

And kept their sheep securely penned.

Comments

[shirebound]

How creative, to imagine how folks would react to discovering the stone trolls!

[fredbassett]

Thank you! I've been stumped by this prompt for a little while until this jumped into my head.

[liadt]

Nice to know what happened after Bilbo and co passed through!

[fredbassett]

I'm sure there were folks who where glad their sheep were no longer being stolen.

[hhimring]

Yes, the existence of people such as these is more or less implied, isn't it? I'm glad you showed us their angle; their reactions are very believable.

[fredbassett]

I presumed from the grumblings about mutton that there had to be people not too far away.

Thank you!

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Smart to not push your luck.

[fredbassett]

*nods*

[periantari.livejournal.com]

Love this! It's good to see a perspective from those that the trolls had harmed. Creative!

[fredbassett]

Thank you!

[fififolle]

I'm excited for them! Totally understand their caution though...

[fredbassett]

Old habits are hard to break!